Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding the deplorable condition of a water tank, Golconda Fort, Hyderabad, Telangana, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …

Light on mercury

Sifting through Delhi’s municipal rubbish every day, Anwarul Shaikh and Rupa Begum often find broken CFL bulbs mixed in kitchen and other domestic waste. The compact fluorescent lamps have replaced incandescent bulbs in garbage mounds in the past couple of years, Rupa said, picking a few up. The glass tube …

Weak rules, weaker regulators

A blanket of smog envelopes Kuarmunda and Bonai subdivisions of Odisha’s Sundargarh district every morning. Area residents attribute it to emissions from sponge iron factories nearby that switch off their emission control devices—electrostatic precipitators (ESPs)—at night. The reason these factories get away with such offences is weak rules and weaker …

When will coliform matter?

THERE is a good chance the leafy vegetables that make it to your salad bowls were irrigated using untreated or partially treated sewage. Each day an estimated 20,000 million litres of sewage is used for irrigation—five times what Delhi generates each day—but more than half of it is untreated. Faecal …

Tardy progress on disposal measures

Bangalore is in a better position compared to other parts of the State when it comes to implementation of an action plan on bio-medical waste management. The action plan was submitted by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to the Lok Adalat a couple of months ago. The action …

CPCB, TN pollution board seem to differ on Sterlite's Tuticorin smelter

Unlike the cannot-be-allowed stand of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on the copper smelting unit of Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin, the Central Pollution Control Board seems to take a different view. During a hearing on the issue in the Supreme Court today, the report of the CPCB on the …

Dust, vehicle emissions in Pune worrisome

A report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has expressed concern over air pollution in Pune due to dust and vehicle emissions, and has called for raising the standards of road infrastructure and public transport in the city. The report,

Suppressed CNG facts

THE Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has fumbled in answering a critical question on carbonyl and methane emissions from vehicle exhausts: which pollutes less—petrol, diesel, CNG or LPG? The pollution watchdog’s study on emissions provides a database that could be used to give a policy message. It declared CNG to …

Suppressed CNG facts

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has fumbled in answering a critical question on carbonyl and methane emissions from vehicle exhausts: which pollutes less

Diesel is best fuel, CNG worst, says study

RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI In a surprise move the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and ICAT has come up with a study that claims diesel is less polluting than CNG. The study, titled

Coming, new tech to handle biomed waste

Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS A method called burn and churn is being proposed by the CPCB to deal with the safe disposal of biomedical waste in the country THE Central Pollution Control Board proposes to implement new technologies to efficiently handle the biomedical waste produced by hospitals across the country.

CSE critique on CPCBs study of exhaust gases from different fuel-based vehicles for carbonyls & methane

CSE comments on CPCB's recently released Study of Exhaust Gases from Different Fuel-based Vehicles for Carbonyls and Methane Emissions. Urges CPCB to recall and urgently review this study to make it more scientifically tenable. CPCB has made a valuable effort to generate emissions data on unregulated toxic emissions as well …

Comprehensive plan for restoration of Kuzhikandam creek soon

G. Krishnakumar Part of efforts to save heavily polluted sites in the country Experts from National Geophysical Research Institute to prepare rehabilitation plan Unchecked discharge of chemical effluents from industrial units results in pollution KOCHI: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) will soon prepare a comprehensive plan for the restoration …

Pollution at 'unhealthy levels' in Delhi, says CSE

NEW DELHI: Pollution is rising to "unhealthy levels" in the Indian capital, and this can cause several health problems, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said Monday. The levels of both particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide were up. The official air quality index of the Central Pollution Control Board …

Response of the Centre for Science and Environment to the discussion paper on Establishment of National Environment Assessment and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA)

Multiplicity of regulatory authorities has not been carefully considered by the government while proposing to set up the National Environment Assessment and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA). For example, it is not difficult to visualise a situation where in a city we might have a district/regional office of State Pollution Control Board …

Draft report on scope, structure and processes of National Environment Assessment and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA)

The project titled ‘Scope, Structure and Processes of National Environment Assessment and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA) given by MoEF to IIT Delhi consortium had the broad mandate for developing the objectives, structure and core processes of the proposed NEAMA. The findings and recommendations of the project are based on: an analysis …

It was a noisy Deepavali in Tirupur, says study

Tirupur: It turned out to be a noisy and polluted Deepavali in Tirupur city this year. This was revealed in the ambient air quality and noise pollution surveys conducted by the District Environmental Laboratory (DEL) of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board here during the Deepavali day and on the …

South crackers spark scan

The Central Pollution Control Board has asked all the state boards to test the noise level of crackers available in the market and submit a report after fireworks from Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu were found to violate norms. The directive, signed by a senior official, was issued after a bulk …

Study on pollution released

Former ISRO chairman Madhavan Nair released a compendium titled

CPCB organises public awareness programme

Bhopal: Prior to Deepawali festival public awareness programme is being organised regarding environmental pollution under the joint aegis of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), regional office Bhopal and Environment Education Institute, Bhopal. As part of this exercise by going personally to various schools of City students are being given information …

All you need is an eye

Gauging a river’s health need not be complex. Taxonomists can make the job very simple. These biologists, who have specialised in the classification of organisms, can determine a river’s health with the unaided eye by simply studying the organisms present. There is little need, therefore, for bottling samples and rushing …

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